William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
Karan Mahajan -
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson -
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant -
My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
Ted Kotcheff -
The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
Victor Garber -
The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
Felix Dennis
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There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
Rachel Cusk -
It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
Floyd Abrams -
I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
Dan Futterman -
Life is not easy in politics.
Viktor Orban -
The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
L. Neil Smith -
My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
Patricia Polacco
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
Young Buck -
If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
Sam Waterston -
Advertising is the life of trade.
Calvin Coolidge -
I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
Laura Robson -
I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
Sam Mendes -
I always go to sleep on the plane. Then I try and stay up whenever I get where I'm going to and get straight into the time zone I'm in.
Kate Moss
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When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
My day is spent hiding from people.
Jerry Della Femina -
I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.
Karen Duffy -
On one hand, I can say, you know, I had many family members - I had many people in my extended family who left right after Katrina, who relocated to different cities, right? Houston, Atlanta. Right? Most of them have come back.
Jesmyn Ward -
Never interfere in a girl and boy fight.
William S. Burroughs